Molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright on Wednesday posted a letter from the National Institute of Health (NIH) showing that an NIH grant did fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, contrary to what Dr. Anthony Fauci had testified to the Senate.
Fauci testified to Senators at a hearing in May that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
However, the NIH’s October 20 letter to House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) showed that the NIH grant, which was awarded to EcoHealth Alliance and then sub-awarded to the Wuhan lab, funded a research project during 2018 and 2019 that tested “if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.”
The letter added: “In this limited experiment, laboratory mice infected with the SHC014 WIV1 bat coronavirus became sicker than those infected with the WIV1 bat coronavirus.”
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, “gain-of-function” research is research that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease.
The NIH letter twists itself into a pretzel explaining that the research was not responsible for SARS-CoV-2.
Whatever you say, Skippy.
More at the Intercept: ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE CONDUCTED RISKY EXPERIMENTS ON MERS VIRUS IN CHINA
MERS has a 35% fatality rate.
How insane do you have to be to play with that kind of thing. Let alone fund it. It”s sick.
Skippy? Do we have to bring John Podesta into the NIH debacle?
I’m wondering if any of you will actually read the letter?
Its not very long and states quite clearly that they funded a specific bit of research that injected forms of covid into mice and related research. (they do take pains to avoid litigation by claiming this research was in no way related to the pandemic).
This is what we know today. Imagine what we will know tomorrow.
Thats not gain of function research. Exactly as I suspected, the usual mouth breathing braindead idiots get it completely wrong.
So you’re on Fauci’s and the Chicom sides?
Let me guess, you’re bestest buddies with Senator Squid Woo.
It’s a touching letter and you can still see where Fauci’s tears marked the paper.
I find it amusing that EcoHealth’s website puts this up in huge letters:
“Who stands between you and the next pandemic?”
So, is that a threat? 😀
Just as I suspected, the letter says the exact OPPOSITE!
SDA has been really going down the toilet.
My dog shits out turds that are smarter than you.
The letter points out that it was indeed gain to function, AND it points out that EcoHealth violated the agreement and did not have a second safety review even though the language of the grant required it. Go away.
Try reading it again.
Why are you here then? I question why people like yourself, that hate everything they read on a site like SDA, always have to comment, and comment multiple times on the same article!
If you don’t like what is here, use whatever is left of your brain, and take your eyeball dollars elsewhere.
I think an explanation can be found in a story I heard about H. L. Mencken. He often pilloried America and Americans and, when someone asked him why he was still in the country when he loathed and detested it so much, his answer was, “Why do people go to zoos?”
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Erin, is that you?
Saskatchewan has too many “Floaters” in the health care field. They all claim to speak for everyone. If you disagree with them, be prepared to feel their “wrath”.
I had a back alley conversation with my neighbour, who claims to be a patient of Dr. Wong. It sounds like Dr. Wong’s belief is all COVID issues flow from the unvaccinated. My neighbour presented various “talking points” supporting this position. When he started to talk about polling amongst doctors, I interjected that I’m a believer in the Pareto Principle. I told him the Pareto Principle is that 20% of your people do 80% of the work. Echoing comments from Sundance (Conservative Treehouse) the 20% are those who aren’t getting vaccinated. The “Floaters” got vaccinated a long time ago. The “Floaters” won’t chance unemployment on a principle. My neighbour ( a retired successful business man) stopped for a moment, and then changed the subject. We talked for half an hour after that about other things.
Later, we talked about Antibody-Dependent Enhancement. I told him I thought Wong is simply positioning himself for the “Sh*tstorm” that is coming down the pipe related to old people dying of ADE. A doctor should know about these things and counsel accordingly. Why Saskatchewan doctors will not look at Ivermectin is a mystery to me.
Let me spell ut out clearly. Gain of function is genetically modifying a virus. There is some debate if that includes a virus that is benign, or if it includes virii that are PPP (pathogen with pandemic potential).
But neither apply here because the virus in question is naturally occurring and not modified. Testing it on mice isn’t gain of function. In fact that is exactly what the Ecohealth grant is! Find naturally occurring coronavirii, get a sample, test them, genetically map them.
Its absolutely hilarious watching the usual idiots scream and yell that this is a smoking gun.
You’ve picked a side.
Why do this “research” at a very new “institute” built by people who were unqualified to build it – ask the French who were kicked out as soon as it opened despite the agreement – and run by people who are certainly devoid of any type of limits based on a pathological hatred of non-Chinese humans?
The smoking gun points at you and its not funny.
The virus is genetically modified, WHEN the furin cleavage site has been split and genetic code has been inserted.
Therefore, now genetically modified. It is no longer -natural-, understand?
The fact that the murderer Fraudci has tied himself into pretzels to deny that, doesn’t make him or his accomplices correct. They are covering up their guilt.
I have said a lot on this. I was right yesterday, today and will still be right tomorrow. That is not arrogance just the truth.
If the only rational purpose of Gain of Function research is to find possible mutations that might be disastrous for humans, where is the parallel research to find effective treatments for said mutations?
Why is this not required in the grant proposals and grant requirements?
Without those requirements what they have is flat out bio-weapons research.
Period.